2010/7/10 Andreas <maps.on@gmx.net>:
> Hi
>
> how would I store little key-Nr to text lists?
> Like e.g.
>
> colors
> 1 red
> 2 green
> 3 blue
>
> Maybe I later also need to add 4 yellow?
>
> Obviously the numbers are used for foreign keys in data tables and the texts
> appear in selects.
> On the other hand users should chose from listboxes in an application so I
> need to be able to read the (key, ext) tupels.
>
> For now I use 2 column tables that in selects get joined to a data table.
>
> Is there a more clever way ?
you can use enums, you can use a hstore contrib module, but what you
doing is best
regards
Pavel Stehule
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